that would explicitly classify some gender-affirming care as child abuse. The Texas Senate passed the bill, but the legislation died in the House.
“We want to assure our residents with transgender children that they are safe to continue seeking the care their children need,” a joint statement said."any parent, any facility, or anyone else for providing medically appropriate care to transgender children." Libby Gonzales was 7 when she went to the Texas Capitol in 2017 to testify against legislation that would have limited what bathrooms transgender people can use. The bills ultimately failed to pass.“I am 7 years old and I am transgender,” the nervous girl told the powerful state senators looking down at her from the dais in 2017. “Please keep me safe. Thank you.”
As a result of the directive, Rachel Gonzales, Libby’s mother, has developed plans in case Texas Child Protective Services shows up at her Dallas home. “My daughter is a fifth-generation Texan. We're simply not leaving our home because of some bullies in the Texas [Legislature],” Gonzales said.While child abuse investigations of gender-affirming care are rare, there is at least one well-known example: a DFPS
And in spite of child welfare officials saying earlier this week that they would comply with Abbott’s orders, the Democratic lawmakers said no government agency “is obligated to comply with the directive of the Governor or enforce the false assertions made by the Attorney General.”legal definitionIn general, CPS investigators who find evidence of abuse may decide to set up services for the family to remove the threat to the child or stage some other intervention.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
And Texas will still vote their lunatic and his henchmen back in office come November!! What a sickening thought!!!
The state will decide whether you have children, how they are educated and how you will care for them. If you do not conform, the state will take them and raise them. Is that Texas, or Aldous Huxley?
SheripetersonS
hey, If abbott & paxton want ppl 2 face thier truth why not let ken be an example & to face his acquirers & go 2 court? Texas a state with an AG out on bail/some special deal, how uncool. A $3.00bill phoney! best jml ps,fox guarding hen house, come 2 anyone's mind other than me?
Trans children? 😳
meanwhile abbott lets kids be abused at shelters.
Texas GOP supports big intrusive government into peoples personal lives…
I don't think terrified is the right term, it's more like terrorized. Didn't Paxton just get caught up in legal mess, and Abbott, a useless nincompoop is slowly sliding out of the Governor's seat. Parents stand-up for your kids!
I hope they can relocate to a more welcoming state.
Or as Abbott likes to call it, a “winning issue.”
TheCrueltyIsThePoint AbbottFailedTexasAgain If you aren't a fetus Republicans hate you.
Come on now, you just have to wait until you are 18 before you can mutilate yourself.😂
Seeing kids allegedly say stuff like this harkens to all of the other abused kids who are gaslit into defending their abusers. It's dispicable in either case. Thankful we are finally taking steps to protect these kids!
Keep your hypocritical religion out of my politics.
GovAbbott please pray for these families
'Welcome to the terrified club' -- foster kids in Texas also failed by these hack GOP opportunists
DetroitDeeDee TexasTribune It begins. The light that was in the world, that was taken, shall return. Then we will know as we are known. Darkness will run and hide to be remembered no more.
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